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• Report Data Performance Management Is Essential To Prove Data's ROI

  November 13, 2018 | Michele Goetz

  Insight is the engine of today's businesses. The value of a company can be measured by the performance of its data. This report helps enterprise architects and chief data officers (CDOs) close the...

• Report The RPA Market Will Reach $2.9 Billion By 2021

  While Large, It's Only A Subset Of The $48.5 Billion Broader AI Cubicle Spend

  February 13, 2017 | Craig Le Clair

  The robotic process automation (RPA) market is heated — but to be sustained, RPA must offer more than plugging gaps in legacy systems. We can forecast spending on RPA solutions based on the...

• Report The Future Of White-Collar Work: Sharing Your Cubicle With Robots

  Thirteen Emerging Best Practices For Man/Machine Collaboration

  June 22, 2016 | Craig Le Clair, J. P. Gownder

  Cognitive technologies have already reshaped the general workforce, forcing enterprise architecture (EA) professionals to answer questions about how quickly these technologies will disrupt...

• Report Design Tomorrow's Data Management For Agility In Context

  March 22, 2016 | Michele Goetz

  Traditional data management programs continue to emphasize data collection, rational storage, and business access while overlooking the context of business data usage. This lack of business...

• Report Drive Coherence Across Your Diverse Information Architecture Landscape

  December 9, 2015 | Gene Leganza

  The ability to manage information strategically is becoming a high priority for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals, but a coherent and comprehensive approach to information in the...

• Report Brief: The New Economics Of Experimentation

  Sprint Uses Digital Experimentation To Drive Rapid, Customer-Centric Innovation

  August 17, 2015 | Clay Richardson

  Corporate leaders all agree that to excel in the digital economy, innovation must come from every nook and cranny of the enterprise. To deliver on this innovation imperative, enterprise...

• Report Chinese Firms Must Embrace DevOps To Accelerate Digital Transformation

  Start The Journey By Digitizing Application Life-Cycle Management

  March 30, 2015 | Charlie Dai

  Consumers are undergoing a mobile mind shift; Internet companies are disrupting traditional Chinese companies in almost every industry; macroeconomic growth is slowing; and competition is...

• Report E-Signatures — A Few Simple Best Practices Drive Adoption

  Eliminating Wet Signatures Is A Stepping Stone To Digital Business

  December 2, 2014 | Craig Le Clair

  Digitizing your business requires eliminating paper. A good start is to remove any requirements for "wet signatures" from your processes — and many organizations are. Electronic signatures...

• Report Six Trends Reshape The Content Capture Market

  Increasing Digitization, Big Data, And Analytics Have The Potential To Lower The Capture Administrative Burden

  September 5, 2014 | Craig Le Clair

  Today most enterprises rely on inbound content capture technology designed for paper and fax and aligned specifically with a line of business. But now the BT agenda is clear: Help fully digitize...

• Report Forrester's Data Taxonomy Tool

  August 8, 2014 | Boris Evelson, Michele Goetz

  When it comes to data technology, are you lost in translation? What’s the difference between data federation, virtualization, and data- or information-as-a-service? Are columnar databases also...

• Report Google Flu Trends — A Big Data Fail? Not Exactly

  Learn Big Data Lessons From Google

  June 20, 2014 | Brian Hopkins

  In 2008, Google developed a big data predictive model using Internet search terms that it claimed could track the spread of the flu faster and with greater accuracy than the Center for Disease...

• Workshop Forrester's Forum For Technology Management Leaders

  Unleash Your Digital Business

  May 5, 2014 | Orlando, FL | Sharyn Leaver, George F. Colony, Ted Schadler

  Approximately 700 of the companies currently on the Fortune 1000 joined the list within the past decade. That’s double the turnover we saw just two decades ago. Why the shakeup? Tech-savvy...

• Report Quick Take: What The Federal Framework For Health IT Means To Providers' Architecture

  April 14, 2014 | Skip Snow

  On April 3rd, 2014 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the...

• Report EA's Value To Customer-Experience-Driven Transformation

  October 9, 2013 | Derek Miers

  Firms can no longer rely on operational excellence or product innovation alone for their success. Sooner or later, cost reduction efforts run out of steam and the organization is forced to...

• Report Create Agile Processes For Introducing Emerging Technology

  November 19, 2012 | Brian Hopkins

  With its careful approach to planning technology investments and general aversion to risk, IT is not meeting business demands for emerging technology as a driver for innovation and growth....

• Report Focus On The Transformational Impact Of Business Architecture

  September 7, 2012 | Derek Miers

  This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on business architecture. This report is designed to help you align the...

• Report Federal IT Cost Reduction Efforts Will Require Process Change To Succeed

  February 6, 2012 | Brian Hopkins

  In an attempt to control IT costs, the US federal government is establishing mandates that are forcing deep and massive technology change. With data center consolidation and cloud migrations...

• Report A Day In The Life Of Four Business Architects

  November 14, 2011 | Jeff Scott

  Forrester clients are asking, "What do business architects do?" They have read the theory, studied the models, and experimented with the tools. But what they really want to know is what business...

• Report Link Capabilities, Processes, And Value Streams For More Business Impact

  September 13, 2011 | Clay Richardson, Jeff Scott

  Value streams and capability maps are both business architecture tools that can create a platform for strategic discussion and executive decision-making. Architects, business analysts, and process...

• Report The ROI Of BPM Suites

  A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Real Transformational Benefits

  August 22, 2011 | Clay Richardson

  Companies waste millions of dollars each year on ineffective and inefficient business processes. Many companies attack this waste with process improvement exercises using approaches such as Six...

• Report Case Study: Sallie Mae Drives Data Governance In A Complex Environment

  July 18, 2011 | Rob Karel

  Sallie Mae is a financial services company specializing in education, offering college savings programs, tuition payment plans, and education loans. In 2006, the firm developed a marketing strategy...

• Report EAs: Use Social Technologies To Connect With Empowered HEROes

  May 25, 2011 | Henry Peyret

  A challenging trend for enterprise architecture teams is extending their influence across the enterprise, and a prerequisite for achieving this influence is a deep understanding of "what's going on...

• Report Save Money, Go Green, And Be A HERO By Shining A Light On The Office

  An Empowered Report

  May 24, 2011 | Craig Le Clair

  In most organizations, printers, fax machines, and scanners seem to magically multiply without human intervention. Although companies often don't count the cost, the amount of money they spend...

• Report Insurance Claims: A Classic Untamed Process

  Taming The Insurance Claim Experience

  May 24, 2011 | Craig Le Clair

  At its highest level, a business process is any activity that helps an enterprise achieve its goals. In insurance, industry-specific applications form the transactional backbone of claims...

• Report Case Study: Freescale Semiconductor Uses Data Services To Analyze Real-Time Data

  April 19, 2011 | Gene Leganza

  Advances in technology that enable real-time data integration and analysis raise the bar for organizations' in-house information management capabilities, but they can provide significant advances...